Nobody Understands Me (Because I Am So Deep)

Unique human being variety number four

I dislike being typed. Labels of all kind give me an itchy, hair-shirt feeling, and I have avoided them all my life—sometimes to my detriment. I have a habit of viewing self-labeling as not just “bad” for myself, but bad for other people too. Few things make my heart sink faster than when we’re having a perfectly good conversation and you go and self-define. “I’m just like that…” “I’m bad at math…” “I’m a Pisces…” I sense a premature closure of possibility, and I have an impulse to disprove that for you. But I have had a vague curiosity about the Enneagram system for a while, since reading…

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